VEGAS HOTEL WORKERS SEEK “PANIC BUTTON”

The union representing tens of thousands of hotel workers in Las Vegas will ask casino-resort operators to give “panic buttons” to more than 14,000 housekeepers working on the Strip and downtown.

The effort echoes concerns of the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct and long-running worker concerns about their safety.

Court records show numerous accounts of housekeepers being brutally attacked in the past. The union declined to provide figures related to threatening situations that Las Vegas housekeepers have faced in recent years.

In New York City, housekeepers at unionized hotels have been carrying panic buttons — wireless devices that alert managers if they are attacked — since 2013. The move was in response to a union effort after a maid accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then-leader of the International Monetary Fund, of sexual assault.